Abstract
THE EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND the place of myth within Plato's philosophy would benefit from noting that Plato had different programs for the education of unphilosophic men (the many) and for philosophic men (those capable of being philosophers); myth has an important and different role to play in each of these programs.' Plato does not directly state the contribution which he believed myth could make to philosophy; most of his commentary on myth is directed towards the place which myth has in the education of the unphilosophic.2 Yet it is not right to suppose that what he says about myth there is fully applicable to the use of myth at all times, for just as there is a difference between primitive myths and those which Plato allows in his state, so too his use of myth for the education of the many is
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